WATERBURY, Conn. — Text messages and email correspondence about the transfer of confidential medical records were produced in court this week at an inquiry by the judge presiding over the Alex Jones defamation trial into how, or even if the highly personal records were improperly disclosed by Jones’ lawyers.
The inquiry Wednesday was postponed without definitive answers and will continue next week. But it became clear at the hearing convened by Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis that Jones’ Connecticut lawyer, Norm Pattis, provided a digital version of a case “file” to one or perhaps two of Jones’ Texas lawyers and the records were apparently further disseminated at that point.
At issue are highly confidential, legally protected medical and psychiatric records of the parents and other relatives of Sandy Hook school shooting victims who are suing Jones for millions of dollars in Connecticut. They claim they were defamed and suffered emotionally as a result of the conspiracy theorist’s repeated broadcast assertions that the December 2012 massacre was a hoax created to generate support for gun control.
